Armenia lost 4 billion drams ($8.3 million) in projected tax revenue in the first quarter of this year due to an economic downturn in Russia and other members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), a senior official said on Tuesday.
Armenia will hold more negotiations with Azerbaijan if the latter takes confidence-building measures that were agreed by the two countries’ presidents in Vienna on May 16, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said on Thursday.
Germany’s parliament is pressing ahead with plans to recognize next week the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, one of its deputy speakers, Edelgard Bulmahn, said during a visit to Armenia on Tuesday.
The National Assembly passed in the first reading on Wednesday a new Electoral Code which opposition parties say precludes the proper conduct of Armenia’s next parliamentary elections due in May 2017.
Armenia will bolster Nagorno-Karabakh’s security through a defense treaty that will be signed with the Armenian-populated territory, President Serzh Sarkisian said on Saturday, responding what he called unprecedented Azerbaijani truce violations.
Thousands of Iranian tourists have arrived in Armenia at the start of annual celebrations of Nowruz, the ancient Persian New Year that has long been their country’s most popular and longest holiday.
Officials and experts in Yerevan do not think that the recent publication by a top Russian military analyst of detailed information on the military potential of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh jeopardizes the country’s security.
Armenia’s main opposition Armenian National Congress party intends to cooperate with other political forces and civil society organizations in presenting joint demands regarding changes in the already published draft Electoral Code.
Representatives of the Armenian opposition have accused the government of ignoring their opinions in drafting key legislation ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections that will be held in conditions of the amended Constitution.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament insisted on Tuesday that one of its most controversial members did not insult a journalist last week, dismissing video evidence to the contrary.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Tuesday that their upcoming power-sharing agreement will signify a “long-term” political alliance.
The Armenian authorities dismissed on Tuesday criticism of their handling of a recent constitutional referendum voiced by election experts from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) demanded on Tuesday that a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) clarify his claim that President Serzh Sarkisian’s administration is “discredited” in the eyes of many citizens.
The Armenian dram’s value against the U.S. dollar will likely remain stable despite the continuing depreciation of the Russian ruble, a World Bank official said on Tuesday.
The lifting of international sanctions against Iran has opened up “quite a few interesting opportunities” for Armenia’s economy, a senior official from the World Bank said on Tuesday.
Responding to an uproar in Armenia, the Russian Orthodox Church clarified on Monday that its supreme head, Patriarch Kirill, did not deny the 1915 Armenian genocide when he praised the Ottoman Empire’s treatment of its Christian minorities.
Fighting along “the line of contact” around Nagorno-Karabakh reportedly continued unabated after Saturday’s Armenian-Azerbaijani summit in Switzerland which international mediators hoped will deescalate the Karabakh conflict.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) and its allies downplayed on Tuesday the significance of apparent U.S. threats to blacklist individuals responsible for reported irregularities that marred the referendum on President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional changes.
An Armenian opposition alliance on Sunday accused the authorities of transporting scores of residents of villages and small towns to Yerevan to illegally vote for President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional changes in local precincts.
Voting began on Sunday in a referendum on controversial constitutional changes that would turn Armenia into a parliamentary republic after President Serzh Sarkisian completes his second and final term in office in 2018.
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